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The Rules of Ruin: Scandal Seasons by AFlowerInTheSun
Fandom: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Jun 2025
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The Rules of Ruin: Scandal Seasons is a series of interwoven tales set against the glittering, treacherous backdrop of the ton, where every choice has consequence, every whispered secret carries weight, and every season risks the promise of ruin.
At the heart of it all are Benedict Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington. When the quiet observer of London’s scandals entangles herself with a family destined to cause them, passion and consequence become impossible to separate.
In a world where no one attracts notice quite like a Bridgerton, the promise of scandal orbits around them like moths to the sun.
Told through reimagined canon, alternative pairings, and slow-burning romances, these stories follow Benedict and Penelope, and those in their orbit, as they navigate secret affairs, forbidden desires, political entanglements, and long-buried truths. Each installment explores the delicate art of scandal and the people brave enough to shape it.
Because in a world where reputation is everything, love is the most dangerous game of all.
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21 Jun 2025
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Yours By Accident: A Vow in Fog and Fire by AFlowerInTheSun
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
03 Jun 2025
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Penelope wakes in an unfamiliar bed, the taste of last night like smoke on her tongue, and a ring on her finger she does not remember putting there.
Benedict is already awake. Silent. Wrecked. And he is staring at her like he has broken something he can never fix.
The chapel vows are real. The marriage is real. The memories are hazy.
He has loved her for over a year, quietly, stupidly, completely. But it never mattered. Because her heart was never his to claim. And now, by some foolish twist of fate and brandy, she is his wife.
And she does not remember choosing him.
Penelope's heart still aches for Colin. Benedict knows this. And still, he cannot bring himself to regret loving her, only the way it happened. The way he might have ruined everything.
They must decide what comes next: a future neither planned, a love she is not sure she can return, and a marriage forged in candlelight but shadowed by everything unsaid.
Because vows spoken in the dark still echo in daylight.
Bookmarked by chris2001branham
25 May 2025
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Sun-Kissed and Unbidden by AFlowerInTheSun
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 May 2025
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Summer of 1817. Penelope is no longer a fixture of London’s marriage mart, by choice, not exile. Society barely remembers her, and that suits her well. She lives in the countryside now, in a small, ivy-covered cottage not far from the Granvilles’ estate, with her faithful maid and friend Rae at her side.
She has long since put Lady Whistledown to rest. Instead, she writes novels that sell well.
She has been part of the Granvilles’ world for two years now, and their parties, their freedom, their belief that art is not scandalous but sacred, feel more like home than Mayfair ever did.
Among painters and poets, natural philosophers and scandalous playwrights, Penelope is no longer the forsaken wallflower. She is simply Pen: a woman with ink-stained fingers and sun-kissed shoulders, who lives freely and speaks her mind. She has lovers when she wishes and none when she does not. Her life is full.
So when Benedict arrives at the Granvilles’ summer gathering, charming, disillusioned, still a little too tethered to expectation, it is not to rescue her, or fix her. It is to find himself increasingly fascinated by someone who has already found herself.
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25 May 2025
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Felicity and Hyacinth help Penelope fulfill her dream. Partly for quite selfish reasons.
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14 May 2025
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“Excuse me!” Benedict could not understand what the hell was wrong with pretty redhead, “I said nothing wrong, if you cannot accept that classics are better-”
“Oh, believe me, I am well versed in literature and love the classics but unlike you, I don't go about insulting modern works especially when I will be needing a sign of the author of one of those modern works..”
(Title from Hozier’s song)
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14 May 2025